I was wondering at what different altitudes our FT members live.

Here in Carson City we're almost 5,000 feet above sea level. Lake Tahoe is a little higher, at 6,000. Donner Summit is way up there, at 7,000 to 8,000 feet.

We're in the midst of a big storm, and the difference in the amount of snow we'll get, and what the summit will get, is amazing!

So, how high, or low, are you?

Hi
Where I live In Sydney Australia I am Height about 6m / 19 feet above sea level. Never have ever had any snow but at the moment humid (85%) & warm 29 degrees at 7 pm, light rain all day. This is the end of our summer & always the most humid & damp month.
Cheers, Kasbone

Seattle, WA is 125 above sea level and rainy.

I am in Northern England at about 1400 feet above sea level.

For the last couple of days it has snowed here but 5 miles away and 400 feet lower it has been quite clear.

Interesting - never really thought about this.

We are low for our province, as the Rocky Mountains are on the west side, while I live on the east side. Still fairly high, though, in the grand scheme of things - I'm finding various numbers, but it's around 2220 ft, or 675 m.

Hard to talk about snow, here - we don't really get all that much, as this is a dry part of the world. However, since what we get stays rather than melts - the snow that fell last November is still here, lying under more recent accumulations - it looks snowier than it really is, comparatively. It's up to my knees in the back yard, and will be until the end of March.

My town is on the English Channel coast. The town centre area is actually slightly below sea level. Where I live it's about 40 or 45 metres (130 to 145 feet) up. The highest point in the borough is 575 feet (175 metres) above sea level.

The winter has been pretty mild so far - several degrees above freezing even at night. I'm glad to say we get very little snow here - I hate the stuff!

Chicago is about 586 feet (179 metres) above sea level.

We've gotten quite a lot of snow lately and are expecting more this week. However, the daytime high temperatures recently have been rising to just above freezing, so we're dealing with a combination of snow, slush, and water on the ground. Very messy.

Our local town in 78 metres above sea level and about 800kms from the nearest sea

Ft. Collins, CO is roughly 4,900 ft above sea level. Any storm that comes out of the west is fairly mild, except for the wind. It's when they come out of the east that we check the pantry and bring in more firewood.

My hometown, Nijmegen, is 7 m above sea level. Which is higher than most places in the Netherlands!
I have no idea about the altitude of Brisbane, but I don't think it's much higher than Nijmegen.

The altitude here Augusta, GA is about 145 ft above sea level.

I have a friend who has health problems, that are made worse by our high altitude. I have never experienced a problem. In fact, my asthma all but dissapeared. I wonder how many people are affected?

Dallas is about 520' above sea level, but where I moved here from was in the 1700' range. Maybe that's why I saw more snow in west Texas than I do here.

Missoula, MT, is 3,200 feet above sea level. It's actually pretty mild here...but there's always one or two big storms that supply us with our share of snow for the winter.

Depending on which site you believe, my suburb in Western Sydney is somewhere between sea-level and 36 metres above. This is good, because I have no head for heights.

To quote from http://www.ukotcf.org/territories/jersey.htm

The island slopes from a height of 153 m on the north coast to 60 m above mean sea level in the south.


Now what the mean sea level is supposed to mean I have no idea, something to do with tides? The south coast can have the waves breaking over the sea walls so I would have thought that would be sea level, but apparently not.

Mean Sea Level (MSL) is an average. This link may help:

http://www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/puscience/#1

I found out recently that my house is exactly 500m above sea level. I was looking at my house on Google Earth, and noticed it gives the elevation where the cursor is placed.

1,753 m (5,751 ft) for me

Jerusalem, Israel, about 780 m above sea level (add about another 300 m above the Jordan rift valley which we can see from up here on a clear day)
This is how we got two days of snow this winter which actually stayed on the ground for much of the day in many places, much to our children's delight.

Just 49 metres here... about 45 minutes north of New York City.

6,400 feet here up on a ridge above Castle Rock, Colorado.

The air feels heavy when I fly somewhere near sea level...

I'm 271 feet above sea level. This is a very useful site:
http://www.earthtools.org/
You can zoom in on any place in the World, and then click the button on the left that says height.

Buenos Aires is on sea level so we can´t speak of altitude here.